抄录如下acid test of democracy is not whether you can vote someone in, but whether you can vote them out民主的酸性测试:不是你能把什么人选上去,而是你能把什么人选下去The crucial fact to know here is that the slave trade made the sugar islands rich, so rich, in fact, that the ...
Slavery and the British EmpireSlavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean.MorganKenneth
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The British Act of Emancipation in 1834 and the compensation of 拢 20,000,000 to the slave owners by the British Government represented a unique event in the history of the British anti-slavery movement since 1807. Yet, it was precisely at this time that the good faith of British policy ...
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Atlantic historydiplomatic historyconsulsCubaMozambiqueThis essay explores the careers of two British consuls on different sides of the globe, David Turnbull in Cuba and Lyons McLeod in Mozambique, both engaged in a long-running battle against the illegal slave trade. Consuls were often on the ...
1 Francis ventured no opinion either for or against the slave trade until he spoke in the debate on abolition opened by William Wilberforce on 18 April 1791. His entry into the lists on that occasion raises a number of questions... TH Bowyer - 《Parliamentary History》 被引量: 0发表: 20...
Caribbean Slavery and British Capitalism || \"Dreadful Idlers\" in the Cane Fields: The Slave Labor Pattern on a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1762-1831 RS Dunn - 《Journal of Interdisciplinary History》 被引量: 0发表: 1987年 Protestantism and Slavery in the British Caribbean The article discusses ...
the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how ...